[virt-tools-list] virt-manager user support to run qemu-kvm process under system user for security
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jan 21 11:28:36 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:18:02PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> When connected to 'qemu://session' all VMs are run unprivileged
> as your own user ID. When connected to qemu://system VMs are
> either run as root, or these days as a 'qemu' user. In the future
> there will be a security driver that runs each VM under a dedicated
> user ID.
I think Dan means qemu:///session and qemu:///system.
Rich.
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